at 88 years old, bush is america's hoamerica e america's oldest living former president. cnn's miguel marquez joins us from houston. what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest seems to be that he is sick, but not critical. even his current chief of staff, coming out today, gene becker, with a statement saying, you know, put the harps back in the closet. he's not going anywhere yet. when i read you a little bit of that statement, will he be in the hospital for a little while, wrote becker, yes. he is 88 years old, he had a terrible case of bronchitis, which is then complications, because of he had parkinson's disease. he got out of the hospital, went back in with the bronchitis, and it really took it out of him, it sounds like. now he's beyond the bronchitis, but they're trying to get him back up to his fighting weight, back into shape so they can get him out of the hospital, get rid of that fever that seems to be keeping him down a little bit. his spokesperson today did say, make no make about it, this guy's humor, his trademark sense of humor is in tact and all of his fa